Two top ULFA leaders, who have fled Bangladesh following a crackdown by security forces there, have surrendered before the BSF in Tripura and will be handed over to the Assam Police soon, a top BSF official said today.
Self-styled ULFA Foreign Secretary Sashadhar Choudhury, and Finance Secretary Chitraban Hazarika, surrendered at Gokulnagar along the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura on the intervening night of November 4 and 5.
The two were reportedly trying to enter India when they were spotted by the BSF troops and asked to surrender, the official said.
Intelligence agencies said Bangladesh security agencies have raided some hideouts of leaders of the outfit this week, prompting the cadres to flee.
Internal clashes among ULFA cadres are also said to have forced some ultras to flee.
During interrogation, the ULFA leaders confessed they fled the neighbouring country as they were facing threat to life from their colleagues, the official said.
However, the banned ULFA on Wednesday claimed that Choudhury and Hazarika have been taken away by unidentified persons in civil clothes from a house at Sector 3 of posh Uttara locality in Dhaka, where one of them was living with his family.
The BSF official said the duo will be handed over to the Assam Police soon as it approached the BSF for their custody since several cases were pending in the state against them.
